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. >> for more on the diplomatic efforts, a brief time ago i spoke with robin wright, a senior fellow at the institute of peace, who has just returned from the region. how hopeful are you get a cease- fire will hold? >> 64 years after this conference began, we all know that cease-fires are very vulnerable to collapse. but we all know that whether this particular cease-fire last or not, there is an interest on all parties to try to bring this to an end. there is a sense across the region that so many in government have pressing, internal problems and are not interested in the energy that is needed to invest in a confrontation between the arab world and the israelis. and the president of egypt has played such a constructive role over questions about whether an islamic government could ever deal with israel and bring about an influence on hamas to see a peace process unfold. >> and looking at the details of the cease-fire agreement, it seems that there is an ass of concession. there will be talks on the border crossing (from gaza -- opening from gaza into israel prepare. there have been
. >> for more on the diplomatic efforts, a brief time ago i spoke with robin wright, a senior fellow at the institute of peace, who has just returned from the region. how hopeful are you get a cease- fire will hold? >> 64 years after this conference began, we all know that cease-fires are very vulnerable to collapse. but we all know that whether this particular cease-fire last or not, there is an interest on all parties to try to bring this to an end. there is a sense across the...
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let's try and test it. >> let's go to robin wright. you heard the argument. fascinating debate in many ways, what is happening now all over the world. what do you make in the way that debate just happened? >> well, you can look at the past and lament everything that's happened and complain about it. but the reality is, we have to figure our way out of this mess. the interesting thing, the balance of power shifting throughout the region and president morsi of egypt is beginning prove he actually is interested in negotiating some kind of solution. he hasn't called for a jihad, he hasn't, you know, broken off relations with israel. he's a legitimate player. the mood throughout the region is focused internally at all these countries. the old autocrats are all focused so inside for the need for creating jobs and dealing with the very tough realities they all face. they are less interested in formenting another conflict between the palestinians and israelis. there is a moment of opportunity because of the vulnerability, the unprecedented change that's happened. we
let's try and test it. >> let's go to robin wright. you heard the argument. fascinating debate in many ways, what is happening now all over the world. what do you make in the way that debate just happened? >> well, you can look at the past and lament everything that's happened and complain about it. but the reality is, we have to figure our way out of this mess. the interesting thing, the balance of power shifting throughout the region and president morsi of egypt is beginning prove...
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robin wright, thanks very much. steven ferrell, thanks to you as well. >>> a lot more happening tonight, including new and horrifying images coming out of syria, video showing the aftermath of an air strike that purportedly hit a playground full of children. it comes as the assad regime launches a new wave of attacks across the country. we'll have an update from a photojournalist who just spent eight days inside syria straight ahead. ng this delicious could only come from nature. now from the maker of splenda sweeteners, discover nectresse. the only 100% natural, no-calorie sweetener made from the goodness of fruit. the rich, sweet taste of sugar. nothing artificial. ♪ it's all that sweet ever needs to be. new nectresse. sweetness naturally. you can stay in and like something... or you can get out there and actually like something. the lexus december to remember sales event is on. this is the pursuit of perfection. the lexus december to remember sales event is on. energy is being produced to power our lives. while
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robin wright, thanks very much. steven ferrell, thanks to you as well. >>> a lot more happening tonight, including new and horrifying images coming out of syria, video showing the aftermath of an air strike that purportedly hit a playground full of children. it comes as the assad regime launches a new wave of attacks across the country. we'll have an update from a photojournalist who just spent eight days inside syria straight ahead on "360." >>> a big week on capitol hill for the u.s. ambassador, susan rice, she's about to face her toughest critics on the benghazi attacks. just ahead, which lawmakers she'll be meeting with. >>> a horrifying scene in syria. reports of a massacre on a playground outside damascus. we have to warn you, the images are extremely graphic, and things in syria remain ugly. opposition members who posted this video say it was made after government planes dropped cluster bombs on a playground sunday. ten children reportedly died. they believe the attack was retaliation for the recent victory t
robin wright, thanks very much. steven ferrell, thanks to you as well. >>> a lot more happening tonight, including new and horrifying images coming out of syria, video showing the aftermath of an air strike that purportedly hit a playground full of children. it comes as the assad regime launches a new wave of attacks across the country. we'll have an update from a photojournalist who just spent eight days inside syria straight ahead on "360." >>> a big week on...
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robin wright, thanks very much. steven ferrell, thanks to you as well. >>> a lot more happening tonight, including new and horrifying images coming out of syria, video showing the aftermath of an air strike that purportedly hit a playground full of children. it comes as the asads regime launches a new wave of attacks across the country. we'll have an update from a photojournalist who just spent eight days inside syria straight ahead. as is already saving us money, producing cleaner electricity, putting us to work here in america and supporting wind and solar. though all energy development comes with some risk, we're committed to safely and responsibly producing natural gas. it's not a dream. america's natural gas... putting us in control of our energy future, now. with scottrader streaming quotes, any way you want. fully customize it for your trading process -- from thought to trade, on every screen. and all in real time. which makes it just like having your own trading floor, right at your fingertips. [ rodger ] at
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robin wright, from wilson center and institute of peace. she spent her professional career covering the middle east as our own judith miller, who was the cairo bureau chief for "the new york times" and fox news contributor. what a pleasure to have you both with us today, two great experts on this. robin, what are we seeing play out in egypt? why did morsi's actions last week cause this type of reaction in the streets? >> well it comes in the context of the deep polarization between islamist parties and secular forces, between the forces of the past and the force who is are in power at the moment. it also comes in context with the great struggle to define the new constitution. the judiciary is controlled to a certain degree by holdovers from the mubarak area dissolved parliament and appeared to be on verge of dissolving the constituent assembly was writing constitution and that would have meant to go to square one. jenna: if i could just stop you so we get the full understanding of this. some say the judiciary, the judges would dissolve the
robin wright, from wilson center and institute of peace. she spent her professional career covering the middle east as our own judith miller, who was the cairo bureau chief for "the new york times" and fox news contributor. what a pleasure to have you both with us today, two great experts on this. robin, what are we seeing play out in egypt? why did morsi's actions last week cause this type of reaction in the streets? >> well it comes in the context of the deep polarization...
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robin wright is a veterans affairs journalist, author of a terrific book called "rock the casba." we appreciate your time this morning. >> good morning. >> walk us through this ground operation we're told is on hold while there's an opportunity for negotiations and diplomacy to work. how long is on hold for? so far nobody has really given me, you know, a window of how much time they realistically have. what do you think it is? >> well, look, there's the potential for, at any moment -- whether it's one of the real extre extremist groups like islamic jihad to start firing missiles to undermine diplomacy. sequence of events will likely play out for two or three days. hillary clinton doesn't even arrive until much later today and then you have to deal with the core problem, the chicken and egg argument. israelis are saying we want a cease fire and then we'll talk about the political issues. whereas hamas is saying, we want a package that includes not just the process of a cease fire, but the substance, the political substance of what are we going to get out of this. they believe they'
robin wright is a veterans affairs journalist, author of a terrific book called "rock the casba." we appreciate your time this morning. >> good morning. >> walk us through this ground operation we're told is on hold while there's an opportunity for negotiations and diplomacy to work. how long is on hold for? so far nobody has really given me, you know, a window of how much time they realistically have. what do you think it is? >> well, look, there's the potential...
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we're going to bring in veteran middle east analyst robin wright at the woodrow wilson center and the u.s. institute of peace and author of the book "rock the casbah." she just returned from a trip to the middle east. let's start with the shooting. a very fragile truce right now, a fragile cease-fire, how threatening is an incident like this? >> in 64 years of conflict we've had dozens of cease-fires that are fallen apart. this one was always vulnerable. tempers are particularly explosive. but both sides have a vested interest right now in trying to generate movement for the palestinians, the opening of gaza, the end of the blockade, or the easing of the blockade, that's crippled the economy now for four years, and the israelis want security, obviously, for because of the hamas rockets hit for the first time as far as tel aviv and jerusalem. so there's motive to move forward. the question is, is there the will. that's always been the issue. >> both sides have the motive to move forward, as you say. both sides also claiming victory in this small skirmish over the last several days. wan
we're going to bring in veteran middle east analyst robin wright at the woodrow wilson center and the u.s. institute of peace and author of the book "rock the casbah." she just returned from a trip to the middle east. let's start with the shooting. a very fragile truce right now, a fragile cease-fire, how threatening is an incident like this? >> in 64 years of conflict we've had dozens of cease-fires that are fallen apart. this one was always vulnerable. tempers are particularly...
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aus is robin wright as the woodrow wilson center here in washington. robin, you don't think that president morsi was trying to create a dictatorship overnight, but you think he did go too far. what do you think he was trying to accomplish? >> he did go too far and the timing was terrible, but the context is really important. egypt's judiciary had earlier this year had a democratically elected parliament. there were deep fears they were installing a new constitution. nald have set egypt back to square one to elect a new parliament and from na parliament create a new body to write a constitution. that's a process that could take a year, year and a half. this is time egypt doesn't have. there is a real interest in moving forward and creating solutions to the many problems left behind by the mubarak era. the problem throughout the region where you see changes is the deep polarization between islamic parties and secular forces and both sides deeply afraid the other side is going to create an islamic regime or take the countries that have undergone democrati
aus is robin wright as the woodrow wilson center here in washington. robin, you don't think that president morsi was trying to create a dictatorship overnight, but you think he did go too far. what do you think he was trying to accomplish? >> he did go too far and the timing was terrible, but the context is really important. egypt's judiciary had earlier this year had a democratically elected parliament. there were deep fears they were installing a new constitution. nald have set egypt...
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i would add robin is a former kol he colleague of mine at the "washington post." i'm thrilled the three of you are here. three people who can tell us the meat of what's going on. robin, you were just there. both chuck and ayman indicated signs are moving in a direction of a ceasefire, but both were also cautious to say, look, you know, nothing is declared until everything is declared in that regard. does that jive with what you know coming out of there? >> i think everybody wants to see an end to the hostilities. the real problem is does this open the way for significant diplomacy? no ceasefire will last unless both sides deal with the realities. the palestinians have lived under conditions they think are unacceptable. hamas has been using its rockets to pressure israel. israel, you know, wants to make sure that hamas no longer targets civilian areas, and so both sides have an interest in ending the hostilities but there are differing levels in terms of does israel want to deal with hamas government. is it going to be suspicious about a government in egypt making
i would add robin is a former kol he colleague of mine at the "washington post." i'm thrilled the three of you are here. three people who can tell us the meat of what's going on. robin, you were just there. both chuck and ayman indicated signs are moving in a direction of a ceasefire, but both were also cautious to say, look, you know, nothing is declared until everything is declared in that regard. does that jive with what you know coming out of there? >> i think everybody...
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we're joined by robin wright and steve clemons, washington editor-at-large for "the atlantic." great to have you both experts on. what i'm fascinated by has always been the relationship starting at the time he named her secretary of state, and she agreed to take it. this was a mutual agreement. she could have said no and stayed as a very important senator from new york. this relationship, is it a familiar one like a president and his -- like kennedy and dean rusk or truman and dean acheson? is it like that? we have a big president and a somewhat smaller cabinet minister or are they like equals? >> i think they're very much closer to equals, but this is not kissinger/nixon. hillary came in as the far more experienced person when it came to knowing the world. her husband had been president. she'd toured the world. he had been very involved -- >> she was an international figure. >> she was an international figure. obama was the ingenue. i think obama has become a much stronger president on foreign policies. i know there were a couple situations where she's come through with propos
we're joined by robin wright and steve clemons, washington editor-at-large for "the atlantic." great to have you both experts on. what i'm fascinated by has always been the relationship starting at the time he named her secretary of state, and she agreed to take it. this was a mutual agreement. she could have said no and stayed as a very important senator from new york. this relationship, is it a familiar one like a president and his -- like kennedy and dean rusk or truman and dean...
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robin wright will join us, as well. and how are the markets reacting to the unrest overseas? a major rally yesterday. could we see another upswing today? we'll take a look at what's going on with stocks, oil prices, tell you what it means for you. and kind of a political dynasty we're talking to jeb bush jr. about changes to the republican party. you know he is a big proponent of focusing on hispanic voters. we'll sort of analyze the gop results of past election, what they need to do if they actually want to win next time around. that's all ahead. >> your long weekend was nice? >> my long weekend was excellent. excellent. miami. warm. >> nice. >> heat. >> good for you, soledad o'brien. >> the best. >> at the top of the hour, we do want to talk not necessarily about the great weather in miami but about the record-breaking rain in the northwest. definitely complicating holiday travel for a lot of you this week. rob marciano is live at the cnn weather center with more on the rain. good morning. >> and good morning. it's not all bed of roses down there in miami. we actually have
robin wright will join us, as well. and how are the markets reacting to the unrest overseas? a major rally yesterday. could we see another upswing today? we'll take a look at what's going on with stocks, oil prices, tell you what it means for you. and kind of a political dynasty we're talking to jeb bush jr. about changes to the republican party. you know he is a big proponent of focusing on hispanic voters. we'll sort of analyze the gop results of past election, what they need to do if they...